The Montgomery County Sierra Club is sponsoring four talks this winter
that may be of interest to members of the Botanical Society of Washington.
Jean Schwab, EPA's GreenScapes Program Manager, will give the first talk
on Sunday, January 11:

Dr. Yarowsky is Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Experimental
Therapeutics at University of Maryland School of Medicine. His talk will
focus on the relationship of Cycas micronesica, the people on Guam, and
human degenerative diseases.

Meeting location: Cathy Kerby Room (Room CE-340), Smithsonian
Institution, National Museum of Natural History, 10th St. and Constitution
Avenue NW, Washington, DC. Use the Constitution Avenue entrance; wait to
be escorted up. As usual, light refreshments will be served prior to and
after the presentation.

Pre-meeting dinner: 5:30 P.M. at the Elephant & Castle Pub and Restaurant,
1201 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington. Phone 202-347-7707. The
restaurant is diagonally across from the Old Post Office Pavilion at 12th
and Pennsylvania, a few blocks from the Museum, with Federal Triangle the
nearest Metro station, and Metro Center also nearby.